| Paper 212-a | Female Piety, Religious Poverty, and Royal Patronage in Medieval Russia
(Language: English)
Anna Gutgarts-Weinberger, Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Slavic, Women's Studies |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
Abstract withheld by request.
Paper -b:
The founders of the Franciscan order prescribed complete, absolute poverty for their followers through norms that regulated their way of life. Regulations included the prohibition of possession of personal property and acquisition of resources for living through begging.
In southeastern Europe, Hungary and within the Balkan Peninsula, the regulation could not be applied because of inadequate circulation of money. Thus, rulers and feudal lords gave them small land holdings; they possessed serfs, led property and inheritance disputes, subsequently turning into the ruling landowning class, with all the consequences of the status. Such deformation of the Franciscan rule of poverty in southeastern Europe caused astonishment among the ignorant from developed urban areas of the Mediterranean and Western Europe. This phenomenon, however, with the consent of the supreme ecclesiastical and secular authorities survived until well into the 20th century.
Paper -c:
The problem of 'rich-poor' is one of central problems in the Life of Theodosius, written of venerable Nestor (XI). It is developed in the various aspects, especially voluntary poverty, which Theodosius still in his childhood had chosen and which later became the ground of his monastery regulations. His poverty contrasted with wealth and social status of his family. The poverty was visible – poor clothing. It was a sign of Theodosius devotion to Christ. The poverty was an evidence of absolute trust to God's will in Theodosius monastic life.
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